When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability “fixed”—by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me—for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

— Parker Palmer Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999)

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